Game-board.



Tolall iaztm. concern -Beit'knovvn that-I, JA'conL. Smash, citi? zen of the United States,- rcsidingat Harrod, intheicounty of'Allen and Sta/te` of Ohio, have .im'iented'cefrtain new' and useful 1m- V-prorementsfin'GraIne-Boards, of which the followingfisza specification. f i

- This invention. relates tofgames, the obi ject1ofthe invention being: to: improve the game of bagatelle, andconsequently to increase theiinteest therein, the invention consisting. essentially, of aboard, a plunger, a ball or-marble tobe projected .through manipulation ofthe plunger, a numbered revoluble disk, :an indicator, and a pendulum or f' arin, the latter being actuated through operation of t-he plunger to revolve the disk, all asl willbe hereinafter more fully described and specifically pointed out in the. claims.

"In describing my invention in detail reference will be Ihad to the accompanying drawingsa'vherein like characters denote like or correspondingparts throughout the sevi eral Views, and in whiclrr-v v Figure l'isfa'plan view of a game board constructedin accordance/with the present invention; F ig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional View and Fig. 3 is a cross sectional View.

Referring now to the drawings by numerals, 1 designates a game board, the ends 2 and'sides 3 of which are of a height sutilcient to retain the ball or marble 4 "with Whichthe gaine is played confined to the playing surface of the board. At one end,

thebo'ard is Vdivided off into a plurality of Estalls'5, each being lnumbered as shown. Depressions or openings 6 are formed in the playing surface of the board adjacent the stalls 5, each depression or opening being numbered as shown. When inv use, one

end of the board is slightly elevated so as to dispose the playing surface thereof at an inclination whereby to cause 'the ball'4 subsequent to its projection in a nianner to be hereinafter 4fully disclosed, to roll toward that end of the board having the depressions v6 and stalls 5 formed therein. It is lin oneparty playing the game. This feature will.

be more fully disclosed as the description proceeds. O

Disposed at a slight lncllnation relatively i to the playing surface of the board 1 is a operated, the latter being spring actuated as indicated. at 9 and in a manner common to .the art whereby vto'` project the ball 4. One

end of the tube 7 is opened, and the opposite end closed, the closed end serving as an abutment for the spring 9 and also as an abutment for the knob. 10 of the plunger, the latter beingpulled against the tension of the said spring to shoot YorV project the.y

bali. a A figure '11, fashioned to represent a man, is arranged upon the playingsurface of the board in front of the open end ofthe tube 7 but slightly at one side thereof so as to dispose an arm or pendulum 12 of the figure directlyy in the path of the ball 4 'as it is projected from the tube. The arm or pendulum12 is flattened asindicated .at 13 so as to increase the contacting surface or that portion with which the ball 4 is engageable. At a point adjacent the forward end of the tube 7 and at one side thereof is an upright the path of rotation of thearm or pendulum 12. As the said arm 12 is actuated by reason of engagement of the ball 4 therewith,

it, the said arm, engages one of the projections 16 of the disk, causing the said disk to be rotated, an indicating element 17 .extending upwardly from the standard 14 over Vthe 'periphery of thedi'sk soas to 4designate `or indicate when the sald disk comes to a stand-still subsequent to actuation, the numv ber of points gained by the party playing by reasonof the rotation ofthe disk an the numbers delineated thereon.

From the foregoing, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings it is apparent that points are ascertained not only in the usual manner, that is, by the ball 4 settling in one of the depressions G or vstalls 5, but also through actuation of the disk 15,`

the latter being vrotatable in the manner above described. f

AIn reduction to practice, I have found that the form'of my invention, illustrated in the drawings and referred to in they above description, as the preferred embodiment, is

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the most eiiicient *and practical; yet realizing that the conditions concurrent with the adoption of my device will necessarily vary,

l desire to emphasize the fact that various1 minor changes in details of construction, proportion and arrangement of parts may be resorted to, when required, without sac' rificing any of the advantages of my in-l vention, as defined in the appended. claims.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

f rotatable by contact of the member there- .with, a projectile, and means directing the projectile against the said rotatable member to actuate the latter, as and for .the purpose set forth.

3. A game board including a rotatable arm, a numbered disk positioned in the path of movement of said arm, an indicator sta- I tionary with respect to said disk, said disk being rotatable by contact with the arm therewith, and means to rotatethe arm.

4. A game board including a spring actuinsalate ated plunger, a projectile actuatable through manipulation of the plunger, a "revoluble disk operating in a substantially vertical plane, a rotatable member positioned in the path of the. projectile, said member being actuatable by reason of engagement of the projectile therewith, said member when actuated moving in the path of la circle and engaging said disk for rotatingthe latter, as and for the purpose set Jforth.

5. A game board including a spring actuated plunger, a projectile actuatable through manipulation of the plunger, a numbered revoluble disk operating with its axis ot' rotation extending across the board, a plurality of projections upon the numbered face of the disk, an indicator positioned to extend over the periphery of the disk, an arm positioned in the path of the projectile, said arm being rotatable through engagement of the projectile therewith, the said arm when rotated' being engageable with the projections of the disk to actuate the latter to va ry the position of the numbers thereon irelatively to the indicator associated therewith, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I atix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JACOB L. SNIDER; Witnesses:

K. R. WHITNEY, J. L. B. LEATHERMAN. 

